WASHINGTON (AP) - An aide to Sen. Jim Webb was arrested Monday when he entered a Senate office building with a loaded pistol belonging to the senator. Prediction: One day Webb will go postal
A congressional official briefed on the incident said Webb gave the gun to Thompson when the assistant drove him to an airport earlier in the day. Thompson, upon entering the Senate building, forgot he was carrying the weapon. Sandy Burgler stealing top secret docs and now this? I'm sure I'd get the same equal justice as these two massive shitbirds Gubmint professionals. more at the linky.
VA's Senate delegation looks positively benign compared to most of the NE or Cal. I think Vermont has the worst of the lot although they've got a LOT of tough competition from NY, Mass, RI and Cal in the race to ultimate moonbattery.
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The "aide" is a former Marine, certainly more than capable of safely transporting a weapon. I hope they don't feed him to the crocodiles. But you know they will.
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As I've said before, the Senate is a loon magnet. Everyone of them should be in a straightjacket (and I'm not just being snarky either). And I agree with EU6534 that Webb will wig-out in a sensational way.
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I understand his status, but it wasn't Bring Your Handgun to Work Day at the Russell Building. I would have thought new Senator orientation would have covered that kind of thing.
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Ah yes, the "I forgot about the gun in my bag" card:
CAPITOL HILL (AP) -- Virginia Senator Jim Webb says the arrest of one of his aides while entering a Senate office building yesterday with a loaded pistol was "enormously unfortunate." At a news conference today, Webb didn't get into too much detail regarding the case, other than to say that he thought the possession of the gun was completely inadvertent. Webb said since Phillip Thompson is being arraigned today, he can't specifically discuss the case.
Capitol Police have said the weapon, which belongs to Webb, was revealed when the aide went through an X-ray machine at an entrance of the Russell Senate Office Building. The weapon was described as a loaded pistol with two additional loaded magazines. Webb also said Tuesday that he's never taken a gun to the U. S. capitol complex, though he has had a concealed weapons permit for years.
Tell you what, Senator. I'll defend your packing heat if you'll defend mine.
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Maybe he does, this is from a interview he did at the Daily KOS before the election:
Second Amendment. I support the Second Amendment, for many of the same reasons that I am more "liberal" on social issues. I believe the power of the government should stop at my front door, and that I should have the ability to protect myself and my family.
The NRA's political action committee gave a A rating to Webb and an A-plus rating to Allen. I'll withhold judgement until I see how he votes.
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The NRA's political action committee gave a A rating to Webb and an A-plus rating to Allen. I'll withhold judgement until I see how he votes.
He says he will not back away from supporting gun rights. (Odd that someone would ask him about that in connection with this, but someone must have for him to mention it.)
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Doesn't the current crop of Senators/& House members make you wonder how our Republic ever made it till now, 2007? or how about our prospects 20 years from now, 2027?
[to serious for a big hoot]
The MassHoles & other Nor-Easters SQUAT in the Capitol for life which enables them to enrich district benefactors, party hacks, institutions, businesses, cronies, the mattresses and their pockets with an endless supply of cash, cake, pork, and projects.
The New England schools districts and Universities systems do pretty well with grants, building funds and money including the kick backs.
Will we ever see the day where citizen reps and senators just serve for a term or two? otherwise I'm afraid our kids will be stuck with what we have now..Professional Polititions
Chappaquiddick Edward Kennedy, chairman Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
Patrick 'the Lout' Lahey, Judiciary.
Chris 'Doddering Drunk' Dodd, Banking.
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and here the West well.. I'll let someone else review our world class personalities out here in Caliphornia.
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Boxer and Feinstein will be gone after one more session - now is the time for CA Reps to get moving with candidates to replace these liberal dinosaurs. IMHO the Dems in CA don't have a well-known- deep bench to draw from, either.
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Someone on Presidential hopeful John McCains staff is going to be in trouble today. They used a well known template to create his Myspace page. The template was designed by Newsvine Founder and CEO Mike Davidson (original template is here). Davidson gave the template code away to anyone who wanted to use it, but asked that he be given credit when it was used, and told users to host their own image files.
McCains staff used his template, but didnt give Davidson credit. Worse, he says, they use images that are on his server, meaning he has to pay for the bandwidth used from page views on McCains site.
Davidson decided to play a small prank on the campaign this morning as retribution. Since hes in control of some of the images on the site, he replaced one that shows contact information with a statement:
Today I announce that I have reversed my position and come out in full support of gay marriage particularly marriage between two passionate females.
Screenshots at the link. (Not those kind of screenshots. Get your mind out of the gutter!)
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Heh. I've seen some...er, entertaining pix on eBay auctions when lazy listers hotlink to some other sellers' pictures of similar items. Is it a handbag or a steamy pile of doody? LOL.
(SomaliNet) A baffling device which resembles a satellite or Unidentified Flying Object (U.F.O) has landed in a rural area close to Buulo-Burde town, 220km north of the Somalia capital Mogadishu, eyewitnesses told Shabelle radio on Monday.
Villagers report that the device had fallen in a remote jungle area, some 40km north of Bulo-Burde, killing one camel. No experts have reached there to find out exactly what the object is. The unknown object is sitting on an area of one 100 meter square as people grew more concern over the device that it might explode or contaminate the area.
Ilyas said in the daylight it glitters and but in the nighttime, it turns lights and speaks a strange language which cant be understood by the villagers.
The device is said to be intact and not broken as it gives alarming signals. No one knows where the satellite-like device had come from. In the evening of last Wednesday, a large device flew over us and some time later, we heard a big sound, BAM said Emeril Ilyas Ali, a villager who lives nearby where this large device has fallen. Ilyas said in the daylight it glitters and but in the nighttime, it turns lights and speaks a strange language which cant be understood by the villagers.
The news of the fallen device was too late because of the remote area it landed and poor communication. Details are emerging in the coming days.
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Unknown satellite-like device falls into Somalia
Blue Ice, a delicacy that should be served and consumed at the nearest Mosque. As for the camel, he did his Ummah duty (PBUH).
The "Blue Ice" is way more valuable, trust me it will make the Powerful Islamic Courts even more Powerful. allen is great
Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith died of an accidental overdose of a sleeping medication and at least eight other prescription drugs, and she had recently had a bacterial infection from injecting drugs into her buttocks, authorities said Monday.
Broward County Medical Examiner Joshua Perper said
Smith died of "combined drug intoxication" with the sleeping medication chloral hydrate as the major factor.
Smith died of "combined drug intoxication" with the sleeping medication chloral hydrate as the major factor. She had been taking a lengthy list of medications, including methadone for pain and valium, but those drugs were at therapeutic levels, he said. A bacterial infection from injecting medication in her buttocks and the flu contributed to her death, according to the report.
Chloral hydrate is a sedative used to treat insomnia and alcohol withdrawal, relieve anxiety and ease post-surgery pain. The drug is rarely prescribed and is known to be fatal if combined with certain other drugs - including the sedative Lorazepam, which the autopsy showed she was taking, said Dr. Chip Walls, a forensic toxicologist for the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami. "It's very toxic if you mix it with any other central nervous system depressant drugs," Walls said. "You could get profound sedation leading up to coma and respiratory arrest."
Perper said Smith also had been on several antidepressant and antianxiety drugs and had recently taken longevity medications, vitamin B12 and growth hormone. An assistant medical examiner's report described seeing a table in Smith's hotel room containing cold medicine, soda cans, SlimFast, nicotine gum and an open box of Tamiflu tablets. "We found nothing to indicate any foul play," said Chief Charlie Tiger of the Seminole police department.
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Looks like some Attys' beliefs of physician incompetency or unprofess conduct just may be on the money.
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What Broadband6 said. Everyone is talking about her body or her money. The only time the kid even comes up is in who the father is that gets to handle her bank account.
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I think the media should use all it's resources and stay on this story. There has to be more to it. There has to be...
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Died from a stinking, pus-filled abcess on her ass and her own "treatment" of those very famous private parts. Not quite the Marilyn Munroe image she was striving for. Butt, appropriate. so very appropriate for the skank she was.
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sleeping medication and at least eight other prescription drugs, and she had recently had a bacterial infection from injecting drugs into her buttocks
Let me count the ways ... First off, it would be more than generous to say that her own stupidity is what killed her. Instead, there is no way on earth that this bimbo was unaware of drug synergy interactions. More likely, she was purposefully ingesting "at least eight other prescription drugs" for that precise effect. Add to this that she was self-injecting, one of the most dangerous methods of drug consumption there is, and "stupidity" is far too kind a word.
This woman was a total moron and any journalist who makes her out to be a victim of her own fame or some such tommyrot needs a lengthy session of bastinado.
"Methadone is a rigorously well-tested medication that is safe and efficacious for the treatment of narcotic withdrawal and dependence. For more than 30 years this synthetic narcotic has been used to treat opioid addiction. (snip), Methadone ... permits addicts on methadone to change their behavior and to discontinue heroin use."
Giving up smack and alcohol at the same time? Then bring on the anxiety tablets and sleeping pills, and it will all go away. How much did the infected buttocks kill her, really?
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I see Lisa has become a perminate contributor here at the 'Burg. Welcome Mz Norwak Ima the nice guy here, plenty of extra didys at the O club, just axe AB. btw plz don't stalk me thx in advance.
FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan A contracted logistical plane bringing in frozen foods and other consumables suffered minor damage as a result of a hard landing at Salerno Airfield, here, today.
The AN-26 fixed wing aircraft, chartered by Supreme Food Service, appears to have run out of runaway as it touched down around 11:30 a.m.
The five-man Russian aircrew was not injured in the accident. There were no Coalition or Afghan security forces reported on the aircraft and no reports of damage or injury on the ground.
There was absolutely no hostile forces or enemy activity involved in the accident, said Air Force Maj. Gary Mathis, spokesman for the airfield. Mathis also stated that the investigation will determine if the accident was a result of mechanical failure, pilot error or combination of both.
Coalition forces routinely contract services from international, national and local providers in order to speed delivery and meet troop demands. These contracts often involve the movement and shipment of goods by air, ground and sea.
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Joe,
We're talking Russian aircraft and Russian maintenance here. We're lucky the headline doesn't read seventy.
Mike
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Among the most useless things in the world:
1) Altitude above you
2) Gas you have already burned
3) Runway behind you....
Seems Sky Kingski learned about # 3.......
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Among the most useless things in the world:
1) Altitude above you
2) Gas you have already burned
3) Runway behind you....
Seems Sky Kingski learned about # 3.......
(SomaliNet) Former cabinet minister Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi has won Mauritania's historic presidential election, the interior minister has said. "I hereby proclaim that the next president of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania will be Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi," said Interior Minister Mohamed Ahmed Ould Mohamed Lemine.
He gained 53% of the ballots cast in Sunday's run-off, against 47% for opposition leader Ahmed Ould Daddah. The elections were seen as the fairest since the largely desert country gained independence from France in 1960. Mr. Abdallahi, 68, is supported by a coalition of 18 groups previously loyal to the regime of the ousted authoritarian leader, President Maaoya Sid'Ahmed Ould Taya. He was also backed by the third- and fourth-placed candidates from the first round and a leading anti-slavery campaigner.
Mr. Daddah, 65, an economist and brother of Mauritania's first post-independence leader, unsuccessfully ran against Mr. Taya in 1992 and 2003.
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Clusters of government employees trickling to polling stations in Egypt on Monday failed to mask widespread scepticism over a referendum expected to enshrine controversial changes to the constitution. In familiar scenes in a country where polling has been consistently marked by accusations of fraud and mass abstention, the first to show up at the ballot boxes were groups of government workers. Of course Ill vote for the amendments, were they not proposed by President Hosni Mubarak? asked Said, a civil servant in his fifties heading to a polling station in downtown Cairo with his colleagues.
An estimated 36 million registered voters were called to say yes or no to 34 constitutional amendments that were proposed by Mubarak and rushed through parliament only a week ago. The regime has billed them a major boost to democracy and security but the opposition, rights groups and observers have branded them an unprecedented setback for pluralism and basic freedoms. The opposition opposes them because this is what the opposition does. The amendments are for the benefit of the people, they will help more of the countrys youth find jobs, said Mohammed Abdel Hamid, a young employee of a government-run swimming pool.
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(SomaliNet) President Robert Mugabe is unlikely to contest for next years presidential elections, because people within his party Zanu-PF are anxious to get another candidate, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has said.
Mr. Mugabe has said he would like to postpone the elections and stay in power until 2010 but Zanu-PF members are resisting this option. "We have always called on all patriotic Zimbabweans who want to see a solution about Mugabe coming together," he said. "I'm sure that there is national convergence on such a roadmap being worked out between some of the ruling party members and the MDC [Mr Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change]."
Western diplomats say that Zanu-PF power-brokers Emmerson Mnangagwa and Solomon Mujuru are both keen to replace Mr. Mugabe as the party's candidate next year. The party's policy-making central committee is due to rule on Wednesday whether to reject or approve Mr. Mugabe's suggestion to change the constitution and postpone the elections.
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If anyone from the Zanu-PF wins, meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
I don't know enough about the MDC. He's opposed to Bob, but that doesn't mean he wears a white hat. Trotsky was opposed to Stalin.
Bangladesh staged an impressive military parade on Monday to mark the 36th anniversary of its independence but barred political parties from holding their own ceremonies, witnesses and officials said. President Iajuddin Ahmed and the head of the army-backed interim government, Fakhruddin Ahmed, took the salute at the parade in the capital, Dhaka. They were flanked by the army, navy and air force chiefs. But the politicians who usually occupy front seats at the parade ground were absent, leaving the chairs to advisers of the interim government, bureaucrats and senior military figures.
Sheikh Hasina, one of two feuding former prime ministers, was away in the United States but Begum Khaleda Zia was at her home in the capital. Police had told Khaleda, whose five-year term in office ended in October, not to venture out for security reasons. Media said police had told her she could be targeted by militants. We have had reports of a threat by JMB (Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh) and so to avoid any incident we have deployed 5,500 police in Dhaka city to strengthen security, Dhaka police commissioner Naim Ahmed told AFP.
Hundreds more police were guarding key installations such as power plants, he said. Khaleda was barred from making her regular independence day visit with leaders of her Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) to the national memorial for independence war martyrs at Savar, near the capital and to the Dhaka grave of her husband, the late president Ziaur Rahman. Officials of Hasinas Awami League were prevented from holding a meeting at the graveside of Hasinas father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
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(SomaliNet) The Church of England is considering whether it should pay reparations for its role in the slave trade, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said. Dr Rowan Williams said there was "no quick solution" but the Church was beginning to ask and "work at" the question.
The Church, which owned slaves on plantations in the Caribbean, apologized for its role last year. Dr Williams and the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, led a procession through London on Saturday to mark the bicentenary. The slaves owned by the Church were eventually freed in 1833 - 26 years after the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire. And the Church received government compensation for the loss of slave labor of almost £9,000.
"While it sounds simple to say all right so we should pass on the reparation that was received [when the slaves were freed], exactly to whom?" he said. "Exactly where does it go? And exactly how does it differ from the various ways in which we try to interact now with the effects of that in terms of aid and development and so forth?
So I haven't got a quick solution to that. I think we need to be asking the question and working at it. That, I think we're beginning to do." He said Anglicans needed to acknowledge that they belonged to an institution partly shaped "by terrible things that our forbears did".
Dr Sentamu has called on Britain to make a formal apology for the slave trade. Tony Blair said on Sunday the country's role was a "matter of deep sorrow and regret". But his statement appeared to fall short of demands from campaigners who say he has not gone far enough.
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"But his statement appeared to fall short of demands from campaigners who say he has not gone far enough."
Stupid, neurotic, guilt-ridden liberals... Go ahead and pay the reparations-- and you'll quickly find that they don't "go far enough", either.
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Dave D., once they (guilt-ridden liberals) pay what they feel is THEIR fair share of reparations, they'll tax YOU to pay the other 99.9999% of what is 'owed', and then they'll be all better.
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My wife wants to know where's her reparations from her ancestors being forced out of their homeland because of that damn potato famine you didn't do a damn thing about, ya bastids!
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday called on nations around the world to help stop what he says is a planned US attack on Iran. Chavez, speaking one day after the UN Security Council voted to tighten sanctions on Iran over Tehrans refusal to curtail its nuclear program, cited a Russian press report which purportedly details the time and place of a attack on Iran by the United States, which he has dubbed the empire. The empire is moving aircraft carriers and has been moving troops on Iran, said Chavez, speaking on his broadcast program Hello, Mr President. Hopefully the world will halt this imperial craziness of attacking whomever it pleases. Today it may be Iran, Chavez said, but tomorrow it could be Belarus, Venezuela, or anyone they dislike.
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Must have read WAFF.com > GLOBAL RESEARCH .org > "Theater Iran in Near Term [TIIRNT]" article > Dubya & Admin/USA's alleged preplanned, PHASED scheme to take over Iran + ME. Contingency - RUSSIA initiates LR LIMITED STRATEGIC MISSLE + BOMBER STRIKES AGZ MAINLAND USA. Additional strikes agz USA to occur as warranted.
Also, NEWSMAX > Iran's Mortessa Saffari warns USA agz any "crazy" mil strike agz Iran in aftermath of seizure of RN sailors > Saffari reminds USA MAY BEGIN/START WAR AGZ IRAN, BUT IT WILL BE IRAN WHOM FINISHES IT. Not one US-US Allied invader will get off the beach. Iranian people possess the spirit of resistance + love of Islam, and will never surrender to USA.
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Once in a great while, Joe can. When he finds his meds, I think. Make for fun reading otherwise.
Belarus isn't on the list, Jr. However, we are looking to expand our coffee growing operations in, oh say, the back yard of your palace. Seal Team Six will be by shortly to claim the deed.
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I refuse to buy gas from Citgo, I don't buy anything else made in Venezuela in the last ten years, heck I've even quit collecting their stamps issued after 2000. I can do the same thing to Belarus, Russia, China, or any other nation I choose. Alone, my acts don't amount to much. In concert with 100 million other Americans, we can bankrupt just about anybody - ask the French. Hugo is sowing the seeds of his own destruction with that big mouth of his.
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Joseph is a thinker, not a typer sinse, btw, capitalize the first letter on Yo sentances is way damn Kooooool!
Kosovo's ethnic Albanians welcomed on Monday proposals by the United Nations special negotiator to grant a supervised independence to the breakaway province in the southern Serbia. Martin Ahtisaari as UN's special envoy to Kosovo submitted his proposals package to the Security Council on Monday after nearly 13 months of talks between the ethnic Albanian leaders and the Serbian delegation ended in a deadlock, the sources said.
Kosovo's President Fatmir Sejdiu said in a statement that the plan is considered a historic day of victory for the Kosovars and the whole war-torn Balkan region, the AFP reported. Ahtisaari's proposals envision a semi-state future for the former Serb province making it entitled to have its own national anthem, constitution, flag as well as a permission to join the international entities. Serbian government has voiced its opposition to the plan arguing that it threatens Serbia's territorial integrity and national security, meanwhile saying that Belgrade is ready to give a status of autonomy to the Muslim-dominated province.
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Moose today prognosis-es are a moving target depending on many factors. It's probally more diffulcult to measure now because the numbers of new protocols and trials are huge.
I'm plugged into a major research hospital and meet folks every month with liver cancer.
I recognize that Tony Snow has colon cancer that has spread to his liver which is a different animal but he has a real chance to see another decent quality 5 years.
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Sympathy to him and his family. I have learned a bit about cancer in the past year. If was originally liver cancer, that would be very bad. A secondary cancer in the liver is no picnic, but someone less bad.
Cathy Seipp, Tony Snow, and Me. Maybe the left has invented a cancer-causing agent and distributing it to conservatives.
Americans by 2-1 support the decision of former North Carolina senator John Edwards to stay in the Democratic presidential race even though his wife, Elizabeth, has been diagnosed with a recurrence of breast cancer. However, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds that 38% of the public is inclined to believe that Edwards eventually will have to withdraw from the campaign because of her illness. Fifty percent believe he will stay in the race.
The telephone survey of 1,007 adults was taken Friday through Sunday, just after John and Elizabeth Edwards held a news conference Thursday in Chapel Hill, N.C., to reveal her diagnosis and discuss their decision to stay in the presidential race. The questions about Elizabeth Edwards, asked of half the sample, have a margin of error of +/- 5 percentage points. The error margin for the full sample is +/- 3 percentage points.
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Im familiar with the body-blow of a sudden diagnosis that turns your world upside down. Its incredible you walk into a doctors office and within a span of minutes you find out your life will never be the same. In the back of your mind you nourish the hopes of miracle cures or that you might be like that guy in Dubuque who got the same diagnosis but oddly enough lived forever, but the reality of the situation sits there in your mind. You cant shake it it just wont leave.
But you try to carry on. I think I may know some of what the Edwards are feeling. Theyve been running for the White House for seven years now. And make no mistake as Hugh points out in his book, running for president is a family affair. Its more than a dream and an ambition for them. Its a big part of what defines their lives.
So they walked out of that doctors office refusing to let her disease take their lives away. Some people are calling their decision courageous; others find it puzzling. Having been in a situation analogous to theirs, I think I have some understanding and I know I have some sympathy. Theyre working through all of this. Their first instinct is not to surrender. Thats good, and its what you would have expected. People who seek the presidency arent the types who give up or even compromise easily. . . .
The Edwards have begun their own journey of that sort. Whether they still find presidential politics at the center of their lives a few months from now is an open question. Regardless, the journey is theirs, and one would have a heart of stone to wish them anything other than good luck and Godspeed.
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of course, it's his/their call, he's entitled to it.
I'm also entitled to note that he was an ambulance-chasing parasite. A weak third til Dean self-destructed in '04. Couldn't hold his own Senate seat. Spent half his (only) Senate term in Iowa and NH running for President, and now, apparently chooses to run another losing campaign rather than spend quality time with the lady and the kids before she passes. Mark me down as "Not an Edwards Guy". Guess I live in the wrong one of the Two Americas....the one that doesn't like hypocritical populist class-war crap from mansion-living lawyers of questionable character and judgement...but that's just me. YMMV
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Monica Goodling, a senior Justice Department official involved in the firings of federal prosecutors, will refuse to answer questions at upcoming Senate hearings, citing Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, her lawyer said Monday. "The potential for legal jeopardy for Ms. Goodling from even her most truthful and accurate testimony under these circumstances is very real," said the lawyer, John Dowd. "One need look no further than the recent circumstances and proceedings involving Lewis Libby," he said, a reference to the recent conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff in the CIA leak case.
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Why is this a problem? Can't they be fired for wearing the wrong color tie? They are political appointees, and it doesn't matter if they are doing a stellar job or not. What am I missing?
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smart move - Leahy and Schumer only want to set perjury traps for a non-crime.
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What am I missing?
That the Dems want a show trial, to be used to drum up funds from the Leftoid base. Monica Goodling is looking to avoid the Libby Nonsense. Smart move.
They actually did it. They finally went and did it, a literal, honest-to-Cthulhu shit-storm. And who better to be right in the middle of it?
(Updates death toll, shots fired near interior minister)
GAZA, March 27 (Reuters) - Raw sewage erupted from holding pools and swept through a village in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, causing at least three deaths and many injuries, Palestinian rescue workers said.
They said dozens of residents of Gaza's small Bedouin Village were still unaccounted for after the sewage overflowed from ground-level treatment pools, knocking down many makeshift homes.
Hospital officials said at least 15 people were injured.
It was not immediately clear what caused the sewage to erupt from the pools.
Palestinian Interior Minister Hani al-Qawasmi, who rushed to the village to survey the damage, came under attack from angry gunmen who fired shots over his head, local witnesses said. Qawasmi was whisked to safety in a police car.
Disaster relief, Paleo style. Ray Nagin only thinks he got a lot of this over Katrina. Whatever the cause turns out to be, we can rest assured that the US and Israel will get the blame. America's champion Kool-Aid guzzler, Rosie "Beast" O'Donnell, might even add it to her growing list of conspira-lie links.
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I'm guessing they noticed because everything got wet.
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I remember reading somewhere that Gaza was regarded as a filthy hellhole even in Roman times. Can some of the classical scholars among the Rantbourgeoisie shed some light on this?
I do know that Gaza was the target for the last authenticated attack by the famed Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. The IDF's 3 B-17s---smuggled from the US by the great movie pilot Paul Tallmantz during the '48 war and later converted for maritime patrol---were used to bomb land targets in Gaza during the '56 war.
The Water Authority's Kawash said Gaza's poor infrastructure was to blame for the accident.
Several major sewage treatment projects funded by foreign donors, including one near Umm Naser, were frozen after Hamas won elections last year. The U.S. and EU consider Hamas a terrorist group.
"We had a project to treat sewage in north Gaza, it was worked on for two years," Kawash said. "We built a pressure pipe line and pumping station," he added. "But it was stopped after ... troubles began."
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum blamed the "sanctions against Palestinians, including Gaza and the West Bank" for the condition of Gaza's infrastructure.
The Israeli army offered humanitarian assistance to help clean up the spill. There was no word on whether the offer had been accepted.
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Palestinian Interior Minister Hani al-Qawasmi, who rushed to the village to survey the damage, came under attack from angry gunmen who fired shots over his head...
Yeah, that's their solution to everything. Shoot at it.
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Given this village is about 300 yards from the Israeli border, the residents are probably more stewed about the poop-filled tunnels and shite covered Kassams that are (temporarily) out of commission than their shacks. Funding for the project was already secured. The hold-up was the violence and, well, crappy-attitude of the locals towards the project.
Drowned in their own sh*t. How appropriate. It's going to take hours to stop laughing.
Another article headlined it as a "Sewage Tsunami". At least their food shortage is over. Now they can fish for "brown trout" in the gutters. As in: "Eat shit and die!"
The Palestinians blaming America for this is like Iran claiming that we're responsible for all of their plane crashes, even the Soviet aircraft disasters. Perish the thought that if they just stopped trying to kill everything that moves for more than five minutes, maybe this world might be a little more accommodating.
#22
"Yeah they are suffering from poverty; a poverty of irony!"
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#23
This couldn't have happened to a more deserving bunch of people. Congratulations, Paleos! We look forward to the continuing failure of your basic infrastructure for our base amusement.
#25
"Yeah they are suffering from poverty; a poverty of irony!"
More like a poverty of basic intelligence and work ethic. I helped my neighbors and my family put in septic service to our homes when I was a teenager. It's NOT THAT HARD. It does require work, but so does just about everything else in life. Only the Arabs want everything given to them, and only top quality at that. Then they want someone else to also keep it maintained, and all at someone else's expense. We really ought to quarantine the entire lot, fence them off from the real world, and let them live their 7th-Century dream life.
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Gaza sewage sweeps through village, three dead (!!!!!)
RBees, does this qualify the Palestinian Dead as
Shit Shahids
The man who penned "Bring tea for the Tillerman, Steak for the sun, Wine for the women who made the rain come, Seagulls sing your hearts away, Cause while the sinners sin, the children play" has won an award for bringing eastern and western cultures together. Cat Stevens, now Yusuf Islam, won't be giving any women wine at the Echo awards, why he won't even speak to them if they aren't covered up properly.
Muslim singer Islam reportedly refused to speak with the female guides at a German event over the weekend because they weren't donning some head covering variation of the bee keeper suit despite accepting an honor for building bridges between Eastern and Western cultures. Islam/Stevens received a special prize at the Echo Awards in Berlin for his musical, social and political work and was praised as a bridge-builder between the West and the Islamic world.
According to German publication B.Z., Islam/Stevens, 58, who arrived with an entourage that included his veiled wife, rehearsed his appearance the day before the prize awards and when the female production staff approached Islam regarding the production of the show, he simply ignored them and didn't even take a look at the women.
Islam's manager stated, "Mr Islam doesn't speak with women except his wife. Least of all if they don't wear a headscarf. Things like that only happen via an intermediary." Interesting bridge building in the year 2007.
#10
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#11
"Islam's manager stated, "Mr Islam doesn't speak with women except his wife."
Reason #458,123 why Islam is disastrous for business. Likewise, I guess his wife won't be allowed to communicate with the male grocer, the male utility company representative, the male ambulance driver, the male...
#15
LOL someone2
Of course, now such lyrics would never occur to him. Not only would the woman in question be forbidden to leave, she would be forbidden to express the opinion that she wanted to leave.
HELL is a place where sinners really do burn in an everlasting fire, and not just a religious symbol designed to galvanise the faithful, Pope Benedict XVI has said.
Addressing a parish gathering in a northern suburb of Rome, the Pope said that in the modern world many people, including some believers, had forgotten that if they failed to "admit blame and promise to sin no more", they risked "eternal damnation - the inferno".
Hell "really exists and is eternal, even if nobody talks about it much any more".
The Pope, who as cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was head of Catholic doctrine, noted that "forgiveness of sins" for those who repented was a cornerstone of Christian belief.
He recalled that Jesus had forgiven the "woman taken in adultery" and prevented her from being stoned to death, observing: "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her."
God had given men and women free will to choose whether "spontaneously to accept salvation...the Christian faith is not imposed on anyone, it is a gift, an offer to mankind".
Vatican officials said the Pope - who is also the Bishop of Rome - had been speaking in "straightforward" language "like a parish priest".
He had wanted to reinforce the new Catholic catechism, which holds that hell is a "state of eternal separation from God", to be understood "symbolically rather than physically".
Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, a church historian, said the Pope was "right to remind us that hell is not something to be put on one side" as an inconvenient or embarrassing aspect of belief.
It was described by St Matthew as a place of "everlasting fire" (Matthew xxv, 41).
"The problem is not only that our sense of sin has declined, but also that the world wars and totalitarianisms of the 20th century created a hell on earth as bad as anything we can imagine in the afterlife," Professor Bagliani said.
In 1999, pope John Paul II said heaven was "neither an abstraction nor a physical place in the clouds, but that fullness of communion with God, which is the goal of human life".
Hell, by contrast, was "the ultimate consequence of sin itself. Rather than a place, hell indicates the state of those who freely and definitively separate themselves from God, the source of all life and joy".
In October, the Pope indicated that limbo, supposed since medieval times to be a "halfway house" between heaven and hell, was "only a theological hypothesis" and not a "definitive truth of the faith".
#2
As a dedicated MADONNA + HEADBANGERS BALL, etal. FAN I have to absolutely disagree wid the Pope that Hell is only a "symbolic" place, NOT a physical place or state. Clearly the Vatican has incorrect = limited interpretations of Nostradamus quatrains.
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(SomaliNet) A baffling device which resembles a satellite or Unidentified Flying Object (U.F.O) has landed in a rural area close to Buulo-Burde town, 220km north of the Somalia capital Mogadishu, eyewitnesses told Shabelle radio on Monday. 
Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith died of an accidental overdose of a sleeping medication and at least eight other prescription drugs, and she had recently had a bacterial infection from injecting drugs into her buttocks, authorities said Monday.
An estimated 36 million registered voters were called to say yes or no to 34 constitutional amendments that were proposed by Mubarak and rushed through parliament only a week ago. The regime has billed them a major boost to democracy and security but the opposition, rights groups and observers have branded them an unprecedented setback for pluralism and basic freedoms. The opposition opposes them because this is what the opposition does. The amendments are for the benefit of the people, they will help more of the countrys youth find jobs, said Mohammed Abdel Hamid, a young employee of a government-run swimming pool.
(SomaliNet) The Church of England is considering whether it should pay reparations for its role in the slave trade, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said. Dr Rowan Williams said there was "no quick solution" but the Church was beginning to ask and "work at" the question. 
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday called on nations around the world to help stop what he says is a planned US attack on Iran. Chavez, speaking one day after the UN Security Council voted to tighten sanctions on Iran over Tehrans refusal to curtail its nuclear program, cited a Russian press report which purportedly details the time and place of a attack on Iran by the United States, which he has dubbed the empire. The empire is moving aircraft carriers and has been moving troops on Iran, said Chavez, speaking on his broadcast program Hello, Mr President. Hopefully the world will halt this imperial craziness of attacking whomever it pleases. Today it may be Iran, Chavez said, but tomorrow it could be Belarus, Venezuela, or anyone they dislike.
